How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Nabel GJ. Challenges and opportunities for development of an AIDS vaccine. Nature. 2001;410:1002–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dell’Anno A, Danovaro R. Extracellular DNA plays a key role in deep-sea ecosystem functioning. Science. 2005;309:2179.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ochman H, Lawrence JG, Groisman EA. Lateral gene transfer and the nature of bacterial innovation. Nature. 2000;405:299–304.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Inoue K, Kohda T, Lee J, Ogonuki N, Mochida K, Noguchi Y, et al. Faithful expression of imprinted genes in cloned mice. Science. 2002;295:297.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Aichinger M, Binder A. A Workout in Computational Finance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Gupta N, Banerjee A, Haas-Kogan D, editors. Pediatric CNS Tumors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sibila O, Ferrer M, Torres A. Corticosteroids as Adjunctive Treatment in Community-Acquired Pneumonia. In: Vincent J-L, editor. Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 53–63.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Baboons Don’t Play Follow The Leader – They’re Democratic Travellers. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. [Comments on Panama Canal Revolving Fund Act]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 May. Report No.: B-204078.2.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zurheide PK. Hydromorphology of anomalous bright loamy soils on the mid-Atlantic coastal plain [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Kenigsberg B. Fangs, Fur and Plenty of Firepower. New York Times. 2017 Jan 6;C4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Indian J. Clin. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0970-1915
ISSN (online)	0974-0422
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry

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